Aitken, Robert Grant (1864-1951)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3403. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, born in California, Aitken became director of the Lick Observatory. He made systematic visual surveys of binary stars, measuring their positions visually. His massive New General Catalogue of Double Stars (1932) contained data on 17 000 stars that allowed orbit determinations of many, from which it was possible to calculate data on the masses of the stars' components. He also measured...

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